sex
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(verb) tell the sex (of young chickens) |
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Related Words: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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(noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" |
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Synonyms: gender, sexuality |
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Related Words: androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity, physiological property |
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(noun) all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence" |
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Synonyms: sexual urge |
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Related Words: feeling |
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(noun) either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes" |
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Related Words: category, class, family |
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(noun) activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat" |
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Synonyms: sex activity, sexual activity |
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Related Words: activity, arousal, autoeroticism, autoerotism, bestiality, bisexuality, bodily function, bodily process, body process, breeding, carnal abuse, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, conception, congress, conjugation, copulation, coupling, foreplay, gayness, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, intercourse, lechery, love, lovemaking, making love, mating, outercourse, pairing, perversion, pleasure, procreation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, relation, reproduction, safe sex, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual love, sexual relation, sexual union, sleeping around, stimulation, straightness, union, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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(verb) arouse sexually |
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Synonyms: arouse, excite, turn on, wind up |
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Related Words: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, tempt |
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